Friday, November 5, 2010

Live Blogging Camping World Truck Series From Texas (8:30PM - SPEED)

That is 18 year-old Johanna Long shown above with Steve Byrnes after a Race Hub interview. An up and coming driver who has worked her way through the ranks, Long will start 9th tonight in the truck race. There are lots of good stories in this field.

Krista Voda starts the night with The Setup at 8:30PM ET. Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander are the pit reporters. The race starts shortly after 9PM. Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip will call the action.

TMS has just been very fast today with the low temps and the big power the engines have been making. It should get down into the upper 40's during the truck race.

SPEED is coming off perhaps one of the best truck series telecasts in years. Talladega was done right from start to finish and the reviews were outstanding. TMS should give the TV team another opportunity to show what is right with NASCAR TV coverage.

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I'm gonna hate the next few wks for the trucks. We get RB, but it's the end of the wk, I'm old & thankfully have a job, so I can't stay up so late...:( I will still tape. Hope Weed doesn't ruin them all for me. Enjoy all!!!

I didn't watch much of the race on Tv. I did the in-car cam with car #2 Jennifer using Truck RaceBuddy in full screen.I enjoyed that. The spotter was great - Roll in behind him and hang on. come on.If I could ride with my driver each week like this I would love it.

The Truck RaceBuddy on NASCAR.com made the race even more enjoyable to watch tonight. The multi-views and the in-truck cameras added to the overall experience tonight. Even my 4 year old son sat down and watched most of the race. It didn't hurt that his favorite driver was in the lead most of the night.

I did learn a very important lesson tonight with the audio from the RaceBuddy. Not all NASCAR scanner chatter is suitable for 4 year old ears. No problem thou. There was a great invention on most items that offer sound, and that is the "MUTE" button. Still enjoyed the racing tonight.

A big thank you to whoever created RaceBuddy and thanks for offering it for tonight's race. I am looking forward to watching it next week.

I enjoyed the little bit of RaceBuddy I was able to use. Maybe I'm blind, but I couldn't find any instructions once the 4 cams were showing. It took a while to figure out what cars had the in-car cams. At one time I clicked on one to see what I'd get, and it was just a Dodge commercial so I never tried again. From other posts here, I assume that's how you got to hear the scanner.

Also, I couldn't find a ticker or leaderboard, so I never knew where my favorite driver was. I don't normally have broadband, so I was looking forward to seeing how all this stuff worked. I liked it, but was a little disappointed. Fortunately I love the Speed coverage so I'll be content with that for now.